Growth Device?

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• themightyzenith Posts: 4,598 Arc User

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  knagh wrote: »

  I'm still relatively new to Champions Online (a refugee of our now defunct sister game, City of Heroes) and I wanted to make a *permanently* giant character. The advantage on Enrage causes growth, but its temporary and you have to be in combat.
  
  I heard recently that there is a Growth Device, an item you can get in game, or purchase from the Z-store, or somewhere, that enables "permanent" growth. Is this just a vicious rumor started to get my hopes up? Or does such a really thing exist? I've found no further evidence.
  
  Any info would be appreciated. Thanks all!

  
  It's in the Z store and it's called Super-Magnifier. but you can't use it in combat. By the way, you don't have to be in combat to have the growth effects from enrage.
  
  There is a solution to grow really big in combat.......
  
  You need to take 2 key powers to get big in combat. The main one is Miniaturization Drive, which becomes available at level 17. You need to get the 2 point advantage Reciprocating Gizmo. You should also get Enrage and take the 0 point advantage of Giant Growth. Using both together can make your hero impressively large. But you can tweak things a bit so that you are truly titanic in size.
  
  The key thing is that Mini Drive's growth doesn't last all that long, so you need super INT to reduce the recharge time on your growth powers. You also can add recharge reduction bonuses from gear. This actually gives you decent bonuses with Recip Gizmo and Enrage, so it's not all cosmetic. You will need to watch your Rage meter, but with the right build it's exceedingly easy to keep your Rage maxed out. At lower levels you'll need help from your melee attacks. But eventually you can keep perma-8-stack Enrage.
  
  You can maximize the double-stack of Mini Drive by taking Nanobot Swarm from Gadgeteering, but the real fun comes from the Revitalize specialization from the Intelligence spec tree. Revitalize recharges powers when you use your energy builder. So you can easily double-stack Mini drive with this combo, and occasionally triple stack Mini-Drive. That makes your hero really huge.

  
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• knagh Posts: 23 Arc User

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  Thanks for the tips and pointers! And thanks for the name of the growth device, that will really help.
  
  Now I have to decide if growing super-large is worth a retcon and making Intelligence a Super Stat (in order to get recharge down) so that powers will stack for combat growth.

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